[mb-users] Fake editors! Again!

[David Kritzberg]

* Gioele <gioele at svario.it> [2008-05-05 22:56:39 +0200]:

> Have a look at these editors and their votes
> 
> foo4242: http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=397035
> foo4243: http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=397037
> foo4243: http://musicbrainz.org/show/user/?userid=397039
> 
> and this edit:
> 
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8726649
> 
> There are also similar edits from the same editors.
> 
> We saw something like that few days ago: fake editors create to push
> releases and other edits trough the queue.
> 
> Could we implement some countermeasures? I'd suggest to implement something
> along the lines of:
> 
> * No more than one account per IP per day
> * If there are votes, at lease one must came from an editor with 2-months
> old account
> * Drop votes of editors whose ID is within a certain range (20? 100?)

Allowing no more than one account per ip per day would not affect most
suburban americans, but people using wireless in coffee shops and
other public spaces would be severely limited, right?

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